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Sunday, May 23, 2010

The Well-Decorated Cake

Author: Toba Garrett

ISBN: 1402717733

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Sterling (Oct 1, 2004)
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
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As a Master Cake Designer and featured instructor at the prestigious Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, Toba Garrett has taught top industry professionals her decorating secrets. Now, using the same easy-to-follow style that worked so well in her acclaimed book, Creative Cookies, she brings her artistic vision and professional tips to you in this fully illustrated home cake-decorating course. From selecting the proper equipment to the basics of buttercream, easy techniques for creating piping flowers and ornamentation to advanced drapery and border designs, everything you need to become a better cake designer is included. You’ll find time-saving templates, a picture gallery of spectacular cakes, and a generous selection of Toba’s own recipes. The author lives in New York, NY.

About the Author
Master cake designer and sugarcraft artist Toba M. Garrett has attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and has studied with world-renowned chefs from Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. At the Institute of Culinary Education, she teaches cake decorating and confectionary-art classes that are sold out months in advance. She has participated in many international exhibitions; her culinary artistry has appeared in such magazines as Bride's and Gourmet and in her book Creative Cookies (0806936983); and she has been featured on television. Ms. Garrett has received international gold and silver medals, and dozens of diplomas and honours from culinary societies.

The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Cake Decorating

Author: Carol Deacon

ISBN: 1589230868

Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Creative Publishing international (March 1, 2003)
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds

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The Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Cake Decorating contains all the know-how needed to make and decorate cakes that are incredibly simple, yet absolutely stunning. The book contains cakes for all occasions including birthdays, anniversaries, children's parties, christenings, weddings and more. All the most popular methods of icing and decorations are covered, from buttercream, fondant and chocolate to royal icing and marzipan. Detailed, easy-to-follow instructions explain the basics of preparing and using the different types of icing, followed by recipes for imaginative designs. Beginners will pick up the basics fast and experienced cake decorators will find inspirational new ideas.

About the Author
Carol Deacon is an experienced cake decorator and demonstrator who began her career in 1992. In 1993 she was the winner of an icing contest sponsored by a leading food magazine and was later appointed cake consultant to an international chain store. Deacon writes regularly for various food magazines including Cake Craft and Decoration and demonstrates regularly on television. She is the author of several other highly successful books.

Kate's Cake Decorating: Techniques and Tips for Fun and Fancy Cakes Baked with Love

Author: Kate Sullivan

ISBN: 1592530702

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Quarry Books; illustrated edition edition (Oct 1, 2004)
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds

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Kate Sullivan has baked wedding cakes and party cakes for some of New York?s most interesting weddings and events. Her sought-after recipes, designs, and tips are compiled in this new volume, Kate?s Cake Decorating.

Featured in numerous magazines, Sullivan is a respected and creative baker. For the first time, she brings her knack for creating the unusual to those of us who want to bake more than a layer cake but aren?t sure how.

This book features her recipes and cake-decorating tips as well as personal stories about creating and delivering cakes. She has used cookies as cake toppers, made dozens of multicolored flowers on a hat-shaped cake, and created cakes in the shapes of taxis and diner coffee cups. Whether a lush, vibrant ?Monsoon Wedding? cake or a larger-than-life, 3D ?Cup o? Joe to Go,? Kate?s cakes always inspire people to ask, ?How did she do that??

About the Author
Kate Sullivan?s wedding and party cakes have been featured in numerous magazines, including Oprah, the New York Times, Self, and Time Out New York, as well as on VH1 and in Broadway theater. She lives in New York City.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Essential Guide to Cake Decorating

Author: Alex Barker

ISBN: 1405450169

Hardcover: 96 pages
Publisher: Parragon Publishing (2005)
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds

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The Essential Guide to Cake Decorating explains and illustrates the equipment and methods required for making and decorating a variety of beautiful cakes. From classic elegance for formal occasions to contemporary ideas for fun celebrations - the basic techniques are designs to create stylishly decorated cakes to suit every event.

Enchanted Cakes for Children

Author: Debbie Brown
ISBN: 1853918490
Hardcover: 112 pages
Publisher: Merehurst Limited (August 1, 2001)
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
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Enchanted Cakes for Children contains over 20 endearing characters and scenes, including familiar characters from favorite fairy tales such as the Snow Queen, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella. You'll also meet several new characters from the world of make-believe, such as friendly elves and bewitching mermaids playing with sea creatures. Clear, step-by-step text is complemented by color photos of each cake. Cake decorators of all levels of experience will soon be producing delightful cakes that will enthrall children and adults alike.

About the Author
Debbie Brown is an accomplished cake decorator, author, and teacher who started her career making imaginative birthday cakes for her own three children. She is the author of several other best-selling cake decorating books.

Creative Celebration Cakes

Author: Steve Benison, Lindy Smith & Linda Wilson-Barker

ISBN: 0715316443

Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers (March 2003)
Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces

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Three professional cake designers combine their talents in the 15 cake decoration projects in this book, each of which has variations to reduce the time it takes to make it, and adaptations for creating different designs. For example, a windowbox cake can be adapted into a tropical aquarium cake.

Review
Although ready-made celebration cakes are readily available from the supermarkets these days, they do all tend to be much of a muchness. They also belie the ease with which they are made. This colourful book from David and Charles highlights the work of three celebrated cake designers - Stephen Benison, Lindy Smith and Linda Wilson-Barker - and teaches you how to make them yourself. Some admittedly require a degree of experience and confidence but many are far simpler than at first appears, needing only an artistic eye and a little patience. Footballers and motorcycles, frothy anniversary and engagement cakes, children's dreams come true, - pretty AND edible - all feature, clearly explained in step-by-step instructions accompanied by colour photographs to emphasise the steps. Basic cake mixtures and icings, techniques and equipment precede the actual designs ensuring a basic understanding before you start. So treat your loved ones to something really special with these delightful ideas and make that day even more memorable for all. - Lucy Watson

Quick and Easy Celebration Cakes

Author: Joanna Farrow

ISBN: 0753713691

Hardcover: 144 pages
Publisher: Bounty Books (Dec 19, 2007)

Condition: New

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Introduction 6; Includes: presentation; equipment; flavourings; homemade and bought cakes; icings and decorations; tips and techniques; Something for Everyone 26; Cakes to bring a smile to the faces of golfers, gardeners, travellers, mothers and more! 'Hearts and Flowers' 58; A stunning array of cakes for weddings and.

About the Author
Joanna Farrow trained as a home economist and has worked as a freelance writer for several food magazines including BBC Good Food Magazine. Joanna has written a diverse range of cookery books, from 30 Minute Vegetarian to Simply Cadbury's Chocolate. She also styles food for book, magazine and advertising photography, where she specializes in cake decorating.

Cakes to Dream On: A Master Class in Decorating

Author: Colette Peters

ISBN: 0471214620

Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (Nov 9, 2004)
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

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"Whether blowing out birthday candles or cutting the first piece at a wedding, there are no cakes better suited to wishing and dreaming than Colette’s enchanting creations."--Donna Ferrari, Food & Wine Director, BRIDE’S Magazine

"Colette is an inspired artist who follows a road never-before traveled. Her cakes are amusing and loveable, and they defy gravity. Colette’s creations awaken the childlike spirit in all of us."--Jacques Torres

"Colette’s innovative style and approach are vivid and unique. Her work is an inspiration! This is a brilliant and innovative composition of edible art!"--Ewald Notter, Notter International School of Confectionary Arts

The Home Guide to Cake Decorating

Author: Jane Price
ISBN: 1740453670
Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Murdoch Books (Nov 1, 2004)
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
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This compact, portable, user-friendly guide is the definitive reference book for all cake decorating enthusiasts. Cake decorating is a fabulous mixture of cookery and art, with a sprinkling of inspiration, precise care and reckless use of the imagination thrown in for good measure. This book will lead the novice through the simplest basics, but also contains great ideas and fantastic creations to inspire experienced sugarcrafters. If you have never baked before but want to make a teddy bear's picnic cake for your toddler's birthday, or if you are planning a three-tiered traditional cake with a cream frangipani for a family wedding, this is the book to show you how to do it.

Cake Decorating for the first time

Author: Jaynie Maxfield

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Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Sterling/Chapelle (December 31, 2004)
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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Delight family and friends with exquisitely decorated cakes for birthdays, dinner parties, or just as a special treat. Through a simple question-and-answer format, with every procedure shown in color photographs, beginners will find out how to decorate without icing (just use a powdered sugar design); how to make chocolate curls and gumpaste flowers; how to prepare the drizzled chocolate icing known as ganache; and how to embellish tiered, bundt, and raspberry-filled cakes. See how to whip up fondant, ice petits fours, and use a pastry bag to write greetings and create adornments. The all-important wedding cake is here, too. And while the focus is on decoration, there are also basic cake and icing recipes, too.

About the Author
For 30 years Jaynie Maxfield has been testing recipes, experimenting with colours and textures, and delighting clients in America with her stunning, imaginative, often whimsical, and always delicious creations. Maxfieled's fine cakes and her company, Ambrosia Exquisite Wedding Cakes, have been featured in American Bride magazines. She has been recognised for her unique sense of style, wit, and especially for her use of colour. Her cakes are centerpieces at weddings throughout Utah. She also mentors, teaches and travels. Mostly, she indulges her passion for the science of baking and the art of cake design.